Date is listed as 1701-2. Ralph Thoresby is credited with being the first historian of Leeds. He was also a antiquary and toporapher, as well as a merchant, and that is how he is addressed by Richard Stretton in this letter.

[Handwritten] "Oct. 7, 1695, Leeds Thomas Bradbury Book (C r h r f?--illegible) of Mr. Jer. Thorsby." Pasted to another page with the following note: "The handwriting of ye Revd Thos. Bradbury. Taken from his copy of Owen on ye 130 Psal....

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